From left, Trevor, 4, and Xavier, 2, play video games with their grandmother, Linda Lloyd, on a Sunday mroning, while four-month-old Aaron sleeps in a crib, far right. The boys’ mother, 22-year-old Ashley sleeps on the couch. The family of six, including Linda’s other daughter, Shaina, 8, all share a trailor home in Bowling Green, Ky.

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Getting ready to go anywhere is a huge chore for the family. Chasing the boys above, Trevor, left, Xavier, center, and Aaron into their coats is hard enough.

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The process becomes more complicated when they get to the car, since the car seats only five passengers, not six.

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Linda has worked at Cambridge Market for three years, after cleaning up her life and various addictions. She spends time on the job joking constantly with co-workers, such as Tracey O., center, and Spunky.

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Linda works overtime as much as possible to pay for doctors’ visits, Christmas presents and other extraneous expenses. The deli also has a catering service, and Linda will go straight from working in the kitchen eight hours at a stretch to an event.
The combined stress of such a fast-paced work schedule and worring about “the babies” wears her out daily, as she smookes between deliveries.

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Linda catches Trevor escaping as the boys get ready in the morning. Only Shaina and Trevor are old enough to go to school, the other two children stay home with Ashley, who often sleeps until 11 a.m.

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Linda plays with Ashley’s children every moment she possibly can. She takes pictures of Trevor, left, and Xavier on her cell phone at least once a week.

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With little money to go out, Linda spends a lot of time at home with the kids playing video games and watching movies.

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With little discipline from their mother, the children run wild most of the day. Linda has to play the ‘bad guy.’

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Ashley stops by the house at bedtime to see her children and put them to bed, which often involves simply letting them fall asleep on the nearest sofa.

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Ashley floats in and out of the house throughout the evening. The children flock to her when she’s there, but she rarely participates in caring for them. She plays more the role of the older sister at times.

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Shaina, 8, struggles the most with the constant chaos of the house. Having lost her mother’s attention to the three younger nephews, she can often be angry with them.

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The boys have some developmental disorders and have trouble communicating at times, likely from their mother's drug use. Linda reads books to them at night, after leaving a more-than eight-hour shift.